3 Days ago one of the admins on BioWare's massive social network forums, announced that Mass Effect would be ruined in the eyes of the fans. He didn't choose those words though. He went with "Mass Effect Movie announced!" ... Sad news indeed, if we have any BioWare/Mass Effect fans how does this strike you?
Source: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/129/index/2717410/1
Originally Posted by Del Duio I love Bioware / Black Isle's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale but that's as far as I've followed them.
BioWare had nothing to do with Icewind Dale though.
And indeed, the Forgotten Realms games are rather excellent.
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But yeah, for me D&D will always be about the Forgotten Realms and the 2nd Edition ruleset. My first non-pen and paper D&D game was the Curse of the Azure Bonds goldbox SSI job and it got me hooked.. Even if they did give Clerics & Paladins a turn undead skill that was totally useless in that particular game (There was a grand total of ONE undead in the whole game and it's a friggin' Dracolich- and good luck turning that!)
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Games and movies are two very different things.
Games = entertainment by interacting with the world
Movies = entertainment by doing nothing and seeing other people interact
What's good for one is very bad for the other. That's why almost every movie based on a game has been horrible. Game characters just don't have a fleshed out background most of the time and come through very shallow in movies. Movies are limited to a few sets, don't have a fleshed out world and just fall through there.
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Being a fan of Mass Effect, I'm met with mixed feelings about this announcement. ME has probably the best potential for transitioning to the silver screen but all the video game based movies prior to this lean me to believe this won't get the care it deserves. I feel it won't be possible for them throw all the depth and complexity of what the series is into a 2-3 hour movie without having to severely cut down a lot of aspects of the movie, such as character development which was some of my favorite parts of the games.
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